Then I saw the thrones, and those seated on them had been given authority to judge. And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for their testimony of Jesus and for the word of God, and those who had not worshiped the beast or its image and had not received its mark on their foreheads or hands. And they came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.
Christ Himself is the Angel who binds Satan with chain and key, for none but He has power over the strong man armed. The dragon's strength and subtlety cannot save him from Christ's hands; cast down to his prison with just vengeance, he is shut up and stripped of his old liberty to disturb the churches and deceive the nations.
AI summary
Commenting on Revelation 20:1-10
And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them,.... Besides the throne of God the Father, and the throne of glory, on which the Son of God sits, and the twelve thrones for the twelve apostles of the Lamb; there will be thrones set, or pitched, for all the saints, Dan 7:9 who will sit on them, in the character of kings, and as conquerors...
Verse 4. And I saw thrones--θρονους. See . John here simply says, that he saw in vision thrones, with persons sitting on them, but without intimating who they were that sat on them. It is not the throne of God that is now revealed, for the word is in the plural number, though the writer does not hint how many thrones there were.